SILKWORM PB

Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence … A pleasure to read TIMES —– Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days – as he has done before – and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine s disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives – so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . . A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott. *** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! *** —– PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES: One of the most unique and compelling detectives I ve come across in years MARK BILLINGHAM The work of a master storyteller DAILY TELEGRAPH Unputdownable. . . Irresistible SUNDAY TIMES Will keep you up all night OBSERVER A thoroughly enjoyable classic PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS